| Lang1: | pg |
| Lang2: | oe |
| Lang3: | on |
| Name1: |
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| Name2: | Nȳd |
| Name3: | Nauðr |
| Meaning13: | "need, hardship" |
| Unicode Hex12: | 16BE |
| Unicode Hex3a: | 16BE |
| Unicode Hex3b: | 16BF |
| Transliteration13: | n |
| Transcription13: | n |
| Ipa13: | pronounced as /[n]/ |
| Position12: | 10 |
| Position3: | 8 |
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the Rhaetic's alphabet's N.[1]
The valkyrie Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál talks (to Sigurd) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runesif you don’t want another man’s wifeto abuse your trust if you have a tryst.Carve them on the drinking-hornand on the back of your hand,and carve the rune ᚾ on your fingernail."
The rune is recorded in all three rune poems:
| Rune Poem:[2] | English Translation: | |
| Old Norwegian Nauðr gerer næppa koste; nøktan kælr í froste. | Constraint gives scant choice; a naked man is chilled by the frost. | |
| Old Icelandic Nauð er Þýjar þrá ok þungr kostr ok vássamlig verk. opera niflungr. | Constraint is grief of the bond-maid and state of oppression and toilsome work. | |
| Anglo-Saxon Nẏd bẏþ nearu on breostan; ƿeorþeþ hi þeah oft niþa bearnum to helpe and to hæle gehƿæþre, gif hi his hlẏstaþ æror. | Trouble is oppressive to the heart; yet often it proves a source of help and salvation to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes. |